One event which made HDR really relevant.

finally.......did someone at Microsoft just come back from vacation?

How useful is this if you have crappy hdr display?

Undying:

How useful is this if you have crappy hdr display?

I think you answered your own question with "crappy HDR display"

Some games do HDR right and some don't. The ones that did it right that comes to mind are Hellblade and A Plague Tale: Innocence.

Undying:

How useful is this if you have crappy hdr display?

It might reduce some banding if implemented properly. Japanese developers particularly love their banding, those all have it severely, even the relatively more recent release like Derp Stranding have banding up the ass. Jap games have it so severely that I inject debanding filters into them cranked up to the point that it takes like 3% of an RTX 3080.

Only my sorta 'meh' Panasonic TV is capable of HDR, as well as my 49" Samsung 32:9 monitor, are capable of HDR.....good or not, it doesn't matter to me as I'm happy enough without HDR in my games. Having it available is just a bonus....

jbscotchman:

Some games do HDR right and some don't. The ones that did it right that comes to mind are Hellblade and A Plague Tale: Innocence.

Others I noticed +Doom Eternal +Starwars Battlefront 2 +Apex Legends I only realized recently that I didn't have to manually go into the Windows HDR settings control and switch the setting to turn on HDR manually - that certain games automatically switch Windows into HDR themselves as soon as they launch and turn it off again when quit, which is MUCH more convenient (leaving it in HDR all the time is NOT good - running monitor backlight at 100% and worse colour accuracy for normal desktop productivity use) Bit annoying this is only for Insiders yet - Windows is bad enough without having to run a BETA test version of it on a production/gaming machine

jbscotchman:

Some games do HDR right and some don't. The ones that did it right that comes to mind are Hellblade and A Plague Tale: Innocence.

I tested horizon dawn and valhalla on my G7 . Looks horrible . Not sure it works correct , colors are weird washed out or too dark , sometimes too bright . Horizon is just mess. ( just checked some video channel and they have same thing on different hardware ).

Fox2232:

One event which made HDR really relevant.

The Windows implementation is horrible, the switch makes no sense for the desktop. HDR has been relevant long before this.

kapu:

I tested horizon dawn and valhalla on my G7 . Looks horrible . Not sure it works correct , colors are weird washed out or too dark , sometimes too bright . Horizon is just mess. ( just checked some video channel and they have same thing on different hardware ).

What are your settings? Horizon on the PC and the PS4 Pro here looks incredible with HDR, really pops out.

less banding is the best we can hope for until OLED monitors show up, maybe if youtubers were to push HDR content that would help move things along

How many times does the word "amazing" appear in this article? Amazing.

Expanding the luma range I can somewhat understand, but expanding the color space is changing the intended color palette as primaries will no longer map to the same bounds. (I'd rather thing that some kind of adaptive sub pixel dithering to help with all the banding present from lower quality render targets in many SDR games would be more useful. As SDR games on an OLED already look incredible with the only problem being that you can actually see the visible banding in the low greyscale range that low contrast displays could never show) I don't think this is a good thing. Even expanding the luma range can cause unintentional problems. I haven't seen many examples of injected HDR on my HDR display that don't look absurdly overblown TBH. I'd take some kind of injected dithering/debanding into low quality render targets (Remember when Capcom games used to ship with all kinds of selectable HDR bit depth render targets? In games like Re5 it makes dark scenes go from a banded mess to smooth with no issues) over auto HDR personally.

This works HDR Auto mode in non HDR games and add the meta data for HDR in non HDR games ,so if you can record in HDR and upload the video. HDR is recognized by youtube as HDR content in non HDR games. Which is amazing lol. I like the feature and evil Microsoft is my go to OS for PC Gaming ,so today I will not be switching to linux for PC gaming lol . EDIT : If limited to 60FPS with Auto HDR on you need to set Refresh rate for your monitor correct in Windows display settings.EG: when set to 119.88 only 60 FPS in PC games with non Native HDR,normal HDR games are fine for 120 FPS. When set to 120FPS all games are 120FPS with Auto HDR,well except PC games where you need to disable optimizations or high DPI of course.

I can not download the software from the link it's stuck